The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-11-03
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

scene OF q protracted war Of words BE-
tween the officials Of the Milwaukee road
and residents of the towns along the line
ri the Iowa & Minnesota division. On
Sept: 26, in response to request made
by citizens Of 'Faribault, Ncrthfield and
other towns in the southern portion of the
state. and after a personal Investigation
into the matter, the commission ordered q
reduction OF about 10 per cent in tho rate
on various articles Of merchandise, and
at this meeting tho railroad vigorously
pr otested.
The consolidated Vsrmiliion Iron com.
pany at Duluth has, it 10 reported about
concluded sale Of the half interest in the
company for $3OO,OO0. The purchasers
are wealthy English corporation.
After an illness extending over a year,
Mrs. Gustave Heinemann, wife OF ono OF
st. Pauls best known merchants and citi-
Gems, died suddenly.
W. G. Meelens, formerly station agent at
HOLMAN. Grant county. 10 charged with
embezzling funds OF the Minneapolis &
Pacific railroad company while In its EN-.
ploy.
The dwelling of Mrs. William O'Neal
near Rice Station above st. Cloud, was
totally destroyed. with its contents, by
f1re during her absence. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, on building. $1,000; 5000 on con-
tents. Between 5000 and Sc, 900 in
notes and mortgages were also burned.
A thrce.year-old son OF Gotlieb Dreher.
living in Nicollet County, two miles north
OF Mankato, wandered away from home.
He was afterward found dead and frozen
stiff a few rods from the house.
J. H. Bates. q we'll known business man
OF Minneapolis. commits suicide.
The earning OF tho Northern Pacific for
the third week in October show q hand
some increase over the same period last
year.
Burglars entered NJ. A. Bussen & Co.'S
store at Richmond. Stearns county, and
blew the safe, but only got the outer doors
open.
Tho Duke of Marlborough called on P.
II. Kelley at st. Paul, and an interesting
conversation ensued
At St. Peter, Ben Winkel, a prominent
st: Paul citizen, and Miss Emma Bohrer
OF st. Peter, were married at the Catholic
church by Rev. Father Sorenson.
Three thousand dollars was appropriate
ed by the council of Hastings to r. O.
Libbey to aid in boring for natural gas A
quarter interest in the we'll will be owned
by the city.
Red Wing Special. G. W. Richardson
OF Austin, Tex. arrived here. bringing
with him the corpse Of his wife, who died
at her home Of maIarial fever. She was
slxty.six years OF age. Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ardson were residents OF this city from
1865 to 1875, when they removed to Tex
as. Mr.. Richardson ia presiding elder Of
the Austin (Tex.) district. The remains
will be buried in the family lot in the town
OF WEIGH.
Clearwater Wright county, has a sensa.
ton which has developed into divorce
suit. Tho mother-in-law ofonc OF tho local
physicians found him in n compromising
situation with the servant girl one night.
The doctor has consented to seek another
location.
John H. Cameron OF Dakota was arrest.
ed while very drunk on the street of St.
violently sick and died suddenly. He has
q brother at Grafton.
The low mercury OF the 25th ruined
potatoes in some localities.
A young man named Norton Lane, who
has been working on the d., H. e. D. grade.
while out hunting four miles northeast OF
Benson. Swift county. accidentally shot
himself and was found dead. He was
twentv-fonr years old. unmarried and
came from Blue Earth county. He owned
a small farm west of Mankato,
W. T.. Seelye. lumber operator, found a
lew miles from Brainerd a large ledge of
rock outcropping where iron was supposed
to be in that region. He Clipped
oil some specimens, and believes, on ex.
animation, that he has some miner al bear
ing rock.
General Manager Roswell Miller, of the
Milwaukee & St. Paul thinks that rail.
road is the only thing in this country
which can be regulated, and says there are
lots OF people tying to regulate them. He
says the milk producer gets 81 per cent,
the railroads per cent and the retailer
65 per cent OF the value of milk, but there
is no way OF regulating the retailer. con-
sequently the railroad commissioners
want the roads to haul the milk for small
er rates. He cites the case OF -four as an
example OF cheap freight rates. A barrel
OF -four is hauled from Minneapolis to
Chicago, over 400 miles, for Is cents. but
a drayman won't touch it to move it one
block or dozen for less than rs cents,
yet the draymnn has no invested capital
road has millions.
The Gustavus Adolphus College, at St.
Peters, Minnesota, is reported to be in
with a learned and active faculty Of ten
persons. 1t is under the patronage and
control OF the Swedish Lutheran Church.
but not denomlnationalin it's course OF
instruction. On Wednesday Nov. I'd and
the day following there will be q festival
and dedication, at which addresses will be
delivered by Gov. McGill, Col. Mattson,
john Lima, and Others.
Father McDermott, OF Darwin, is verv
low with an attack of paralysis. He is
unconscious large part Of the time.
The Manitoba engineering parties run.
ming the Brainard e. Northwestern survey
have disbanded. having completed the
line from Milaca to Leech Lake. Another
party is forming for Col. Hogeland TO 90
beyo Leech Lake to assist the present
engineer there to get through to the Mis-
sissippi crossing below Itaska lake.
The thirteenth annual convention OF
the Young Mems Christian Association of
Minnesota, in connection with the associa.
tions OF Dakota, was called to order ut
the NJ. E. church in Faribault by Thomas
Chochran, Jr.. chairman, on the 9th.
The large threestory hotel, the Rush
City house, at Rush City, owned and con.
Quoted by John Bier, was DESTROYED. with
two new barns and several small buildings.
The fire is thought to have been the work
OF tramps.
Winona Special The first of the blind
pigs was brought up before the municipal
court. 1t was Mother Shannon, one of
the best known saloonkeepers in this city.
She failed to take out license when tho
$1,000 license law went into effect, and
was arrested on q charge of selling without
one. She was acquitted.
Rev. DR.. Hawley, Episcopal dean of
Northern Minnesota, is dangerously i'll at
St. Paul's rectory at Brainerd. His res.
Ign etion rs rector was accepted previous
to his illness.
A new four.room school building is com.
pleted at Huron Lake, at a cost OF 81, 900.
Three departments in school have been
opened with Prof. w. w. Cressy az princi-
pal.
The first lodge hall owned by any organ
liza ton Of the A. o. U. w. in Mime.
eota was dedicated in Rochester, recently.
by Ashlar lodge. No. %. The city was
decorated in honor OF the event. and laree
delega lions from Winona. Owatonna, Kas-
son and other towns were present.
George Rosinck and Della Parks have
eloped. George is thirty two years of age
and the yOunv 1a(lv six teen Af;ss no1l.